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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, Weygand had not more than 60 French divisions, plus perhaps two British, two or three Polish, perhaps one Belgian (last week being reorganized, re-uniformed)-about 1,000,000 men in all, to face an enemy whose reserves alone were that many. He dared not weaken further the garrisons of the Maginot Line or his ten divisions facing the new Italian enemy. The Germans, he prophesied, would extend their attack until it stretched all the way to Switzerland in order to keep him from concentrating his strength on any main front. Such was the grim situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Battle of France | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...France resisting Hitler today is not one between two wars. It is a different France, just as England combatting Hitler is not the England of the past 20 years. We of June, 1940, shall not lose our time debating responsibilities when the country is in danger. We shall not weaken France by dividing her. We all bear responsibilities, every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Reynaud the Frenchman | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...haircut could weaken Samson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Musical in Manhattan: Jun. 10, 1940 | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...WEAKEN-Oscar Ameringer-Holt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Life? | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...like Oklahoma City's weekly American Guardian, no labor editor like the Guardian's 69-year-old Oscar Ameringer. Now available to all sections, however, is Editor Ameringer's autobiography. Too good a book to be dismissed with the term "Americana," If You Don't Weaken breathes a spirit (grass roots Socialist) that the U. S. would have been poor without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Great Life? | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

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